Legal Opinion
Duet v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided December 30, 1958No. Civ. A. Nos. 7036, 7037PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
These cases, consolidated for trial, are suits for damages arising out of the construction of an electric transmission line across plaintiffs’ property by the defendant Louisiana Power & Light Company. Mrs. Duet and Earl Guidry, brother and sister, are adjoining landowners. Their property, taken together,1 has a 192' front on the left descending, or east, bank of Bayou Lafourche and runs in a generally easterly direction between parallel lines approximately 8,000'. For the first 1,000' this property may be described as high land in that it is ordinarily dry.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Kerr v. Central Louisiana Electric Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1952
- Yourtee v. Smith-Hall Lumber Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1927
3Cited by7 opinions
- Terrebonne Parish School Board v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
- Stephens v. International Paper Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1989
- Bd. of Com'rs of Port of NO v. ILL. CENT., ETC.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
- C. Graham Pembroke, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross v. Gulf Oil Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- McGuire v. Central Louisiana Elec. Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
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